Tuesday, August 31, 2010

"It’s a very drastic turn of events"

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Ann Liv Young is back at P.S. 1 . (Background here .)

Here's a new one (UPDATED 2X)

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The AP : "A man entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million painting said it disappeared while he was in a drunken haze, according to...

"Why on earth would anyone want to change that?"

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Copyright and fashion are back in the news again. Sen. Schumer has introduced a bill that would extend copyright laws to the fashion indust...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Van Gogh Theft Update

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The investigation into the van Gogh stolen from a museum in Egypt continues. Last week, an Egyptian billionaire offered a 1-million Egypti...

"Lending for compensation is not unheard of"

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What repulsive Stalinist said that? The AAM's Dewey Blanton, who tells the Brandeis Hoot that "museums usually lend their piece...

"The canvas now has far more commodious digs—almost its own mini-chapel"

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More on the tragic deaccessioning of "The Gross Clinic," which "until a few years ago was off-the-beaten trail at the Jeffe...
Friday, August 27, 2010

"The sharing proposal, increasingly popular with galleries and museums across the globe, ..."

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" . . . is an innovative arrangement that is clearly in the best interest of Fisk, Tennessee, and the South ." Fisk issues a state...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Proposed New CA Statute of Limitations for Stolen Art Claims

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In my Journal of Art Crime column last year, I wrote about the Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum case, in which the Ninth Circuit struck dow...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Further on Fisk (UPDATED)

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Following up on my post last night, a couple of additional points re Fisk: 1. For those rooting against the Crystal Bridges deal (which wou...

"Then he lowers the boom: little things don't seem quite right, and Biro is revealed as a con man"

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Still more praise for David Grann's New Yorker article on Peter Paul Biro.

Is the art market unregulated?

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Writing at the NY Times Opinionator Blog, William Cohan says yes, it's " utterly unregulated ." The Art Market Monitor begs t...

The Stolen Van Gogh

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The latest on the Van Gogh stolen from a Cairo museum over the weekend is . . . it's still missing . There were some reports that it ha...
Monday, August 23, 2010

More Fisk Follies

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So Judge Lyle issued her decision in the Fisk case on Friday. She resolved one of the two remaining issues in the case; the other she kick...

"Forget it, I'm done, they can have the image. I just want to get back to my life"

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The big news in the Shepard Fairey lawsuit is that Mannie Garcia has dropped out of the case because it had "taken a toll on him person...

I take a break from blogging for a couple of days ...

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. . . and all hell breaks loose. A decision in the Fisk case. Big news in the Shepard Fairey lawsuit. A Van Gogh is stolen . More on al...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

New Trial for Park West

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The judge has thrown out the $500,000 jury verdict Fine Arts Registry got against Park West Galleries in April. The Detroit Free Press rep...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"It's impractical, your honor, and it's going to become impossible unless something is done to right this ship"

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The Fisk trial has wrapped up . Judge Lyle says she will issue her decision on Friday. Will there be a little joy in Fiskville ?

Linkage (playing catch-up edition)

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Sotheby's selling vegetables . Original fakes . Art theft in Sydney . Henry Moore sketch stolen . Victorian statue stolen . Suit over NY...

"Why is a set of photos worth millions if they were shot by Ansel Adams, and next to nothing if the photographer depressing the plunger was a nobody?"

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The WSJ's Eric Felten on the art world name game .

"Mr. Streets initially denied in an interview that he was the same David W. Streets who was convicted of passing bad checks, fraud and petty theft"

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NYT: Tale of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy .